Fede Alvarez and Cailee Spaeny Grace Cover of MovieMaker Magazine!

With just a month left until Alien: Romulus hits the big screen, the acid-fueled marketing machine has been kicked into over-drive with the film being featured in several upcoming magazines! The MovieMaker magazine has just unveiled a new behind-the-scenes image of director Fede Alvarez and a spacesuited Cailee Spaeny as the cover of their upcoming summer issue.

The Alien: Romulus feature will also include new interviews with Fede Alvarez, Cailee Spaeny and producer Sir Ridley Scott. Sharing what appears to be the article online already, MovieMaker Magazine shared some snippets in their announcement. Talking about Ridley Scott’s believe that the Alien had lost its impact, he told the outlet:

“I figured I’d done enough and walked away. Now, Fede came to me with his idea for a prequel to Aliens, and I went in not expecting too much, but in a funny kind of way, he breathed new life into it.”

Talking about the title of the film, Fede Alvarez explained a little more behind Romulus:

“Romulus is the murderous one. So to make a sequel about the one who gets killed and call it Remus… that story doesn’t feel like it’s going to be aggressive enough for the Alien franchise.”

Elaborating on the sibling dynamic at play in Alien: Romulus, Cailee Spaeny and actor David Jonsson (who portrays Alien: Romulus’ synthetic character Andy) explained that:

“Rain’s brother Andy being a synthetic flips things on its head from what we’ve seen in the other movies. It’s someone she’s fighting for and what that means is being challenged in the movie,” says Spaeny. “They’re stuck on a planet that is falling apart, they don’t have parents, and life on this planet has no future.”

Adds Jonsson: “What the Alien franchise does really well is set up these worlds in which human beings and synthetic beings coexist. Andy serves an important purpose to Rain because he does more for her than what a synthetic, in its basic sense, would usually do. It’s why they’re brother and sister.”

While we know the colony that Alien: Romulus’ characters are so desperate to escape is called Jackson’s Star, we haven’t actually heard much about the planet itself. No longer! There’s a chance it’s actually Thedus, referenced in the original Alien.

And about that dying planet: Álvarez says it “might” be Thedus, a terrestrial planet that the Weyland-Yutani Corporation is stripping of its resources in Alien. The Nostromo is taking part in that plunder.

“The planet we’re leaving is a very interesting one because it feels like an exacerbated version of Earth if we carry on draining so much of its resources and not thinking about other people,” says Jonsson. “We’re not just leaving and going to space for no reason. There’s a reason, and it’s the same reason people leave their countries: because they want to be somewhere better.”

Be sure to head on over the MovieMaker Magazine website to check out the feature in its entirety. Thanks to Willie Goldman for the news.

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